STEPHEN KELLY Merrion Press €24.95 ISBN 9781785370977 Reviewed by: Martin Mansergh While many books have been written about Charles Haughey by journalists, this is the first academic study focused on his Northern Ireland policy and that draws on archival sources available until the mid-1980s. For that reason alone it will be widely consulted. It is … Read more
JANE GRAY, RUTH GERAGHTY and DAVID RALPH Manchester University Press £16.99 ISBN 9780719091520 Reviewed by: Mary Corcoran Mary Corcoran is Professor of Sociology at Maynooth University. What a joy to review a sociological work that is empirically rich and theoretically driven while avoiding a retreat into the obtuse and the arcane. Family rhythms: the changing … Read more
CHRISTOPHER MAGINN and GERALD POWER (eds) Four Courts Press €55 ISBN 9781846826054 Reviewed by: David Edwards David Edwards is Senior Lecturer in History at University College Cork. For 40 years Steven Ellis has been a significant figure in the history of late medieval and early modern Ireland. An authority on the Tudor monarchy, specialising particularly … Read more
BRIAN MURPHY Collins Press €15.99 ISBN 9781848892903 Reviewed by: Tom Garvin Tom Garvin is emeritus Professor of Politics at University College Dublin. Brian Murphy has produced a well-researched and thoroughgoing biography of Douglas Hyde, first president of Ireland under the 1937 Constitution. Hyde was born in Castlerea, Co. Roscommon, in 1860, son of a Protestant … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr Born in Dublin and educated in Nice, Clongowes Wood and Trinity College Dublin, George Noble Plunkett was founder and editor of the magazine Hibernia. In addition, he served as director of the National Museum, vice-president of the Royal Irish Academy and president of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. … Read more